Indra's Net

Indra's Net = Hindu vision of a celestial network that extends in all directions, used as an allegory for the interdependent organization of the universe.

URL = http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/saf/networks/networking-networkers/indras-net.html

Description

"The Hindu myth of Indra's Net provides an allegory of this interdependent organization. This net exists in Indra's palace in heaven and extends infinitely in all directions. At each node of the net where threads cross there is a perfectly clear gem that reflects all the other gems in the net. As each gem reflects every other one; so are you affected by every other system in the universe.

As the threads of Indra's net bind the gems to the net so do our physical bodies bind our minds and other physical entities bind other systems to the universe. Through the threads we reach each other, passing information across the expanses of space. Yet how did this ballet of information ever come about? You see new systems constantly spring to life, arising out of near chaos creating a small pattern that presents a new random twist to that thread of existence." (cited from http://gregwalton.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2006/4/13/1883561.html)